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The Astronaut School has four students—but only one can actually make it to outer space. Who has what it takes? Does anyone even know what it takes? Following the experiences of Daria, an intense, focused student, Claire, a woman struggling to fully realize her own ambitions, Paul, a hobbyist, and Tom, a straight, white, American man, OR, AN ASTRONAUT PLAY explores who gets access to the space they want to enter, why, and what’s left for the rest of us.
Featuring: Caturah Brown (Good Friday) as Daria, Tay Bass (Hype Man) as Claire, Jonathan Cruz (Seance Machine) as Paul, and Harrison Unger (Broadway's The Play That Goes Wrong) as Tom.
InVersion Theatre excavates and liberates found and foundational texts, transforming them into raucous, unrecognizable new theatrical experiences. InVersion Theatre was founded in 2011in Philadelphia by Rebecca LeVine, Johnny G. Lloyd, and William Steinberger. Starting with an existing and often overdetermined text, we create weird, genre-bending work, that remixes the orthodox with the avant-garde. InVersion Theatre produces the WE READ BOOKS series at The Tank.
Johnny G. Lloyd is a New York-based writer and producer. As a playwright, his work has been seen and developed at The Corkscrew Festival, The Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival, 59E59, Dixon Place, The Tank, Judson Memorial Church, Theatre Lab at Florida Atlantic University, Fringe NYC and more. Johnny is a member of the 2019-2020 Liberation Theatre Company’s Writing Residency. Johnny was a semi-finalist for the 2018 Open-Application Commission at Clubbed Thumb and the 2017-2018 Shubert Fellow for Playwriting at Columbia University. He is the producing director of InVersion Theatre. jglloyd.weebly.com
William Steinberger has developed new plays at Hartford Stage, the Drama League, Berkshire Theatre Group, the Wilma, 59E59, Judson Church, Jewish Plays Project, Passage Theatre, Theatre Horizon, InterAct, FGP and Uglyrhino. He has directed productions at Columbia and Neumann universities as well as Quince, FringeArts and the Greenfield Collective. Will has assistant directed for Doug Hughes, Darko Tresnjak, David Auburn, Michael Wilson, Vivienne Benesch, Kip Fagan, Lee Sunday Evans and Robert O’Hara. He is a resident director at the Flea, MTC Directing Fellow and LCT Directors Lab member. Will recently produced Notes on My Mother’s Decline for PlayCo/ABTP at NYTW Next Door. Will is co-founder of InVersion Theatre. Wsteinberger.com
Rebecca LeVine has served as the in-house InVersion dramaturg since 2012. She holds a Master of Arts in Performance Studies from NYU’s Tisch School, where she wrote about photography and the performance of mourning and theater as labor versus theater as enchantment. She studied English at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also acted, directed, dramaturged, and designed for theatre. She also works in publishing and is a freelance graphic designer.